Great Britain Households Have Grown in Past Four Decades
The 40th annual Social Trends report, published by the Office for National Statistics, reported an increase of 8.9 million households in Great Britain since 1961. That is an increase of 55 per cent.
Within those households the family number has fallen from 3.1 people per household to 2.4. The reason for the increase in households but a decrease in people ore household is probably because of more single parent families as well as one person households. One person households increased in four decades and the number of households with six or more people has fallen to 2 per cent. Of the 59.2 million people living in private households in Great Britain, over 70 per cent live in couple family households. Of couple family households without children the number has grown from one-fifth to one quarter of couple families, or 25 per cent. The percentage of lone parent households doubled between 1961 and 1981, from 3 per cent to 6 per cent. That number doubled again from 1981 to 1999.